My celebration card above uses 2 digital images from Scribbles Designs. I am STILL creating 100% digital cards, but the clock is ticking down 'til my craft room is back in business. I can't wait! Here's what has gone into this card:

Tuesday, January 24, 2017

The newest challenge at Ike's World Challenge blog has reached its midway point. Their challenges are now Anything Goes, with some months offering a Twist. This month the Twist is to Use a BOW. I created my card with an image from Ike's Store called Spanish Dancer. I love this image because my cousin dances with a Spanish Dance Company, and she also teaches Flamenco classes.

My card has a surprise in that the image is part of a removable bookmark. My family and I love to read, and we're always losing our bookmarks, so demand is high. Mine folds over the top of a page. My bow is actually a glitter sticker at the top.
My sentiment reads, "Everything in the universe has rhythm. Everything dances. I'll talk more about that in the next challenge for Ike's World Challenge Blog. Meanwhile, share your art with us for your chance to win free digis from Ike's Art store.
Happy crafting!

Monday, January 23, 2017

Welcome to a brand New Year. With this beginning come changes, like at the Path of Positivity Challenge Blog. This year every month is ANYTHING Positive or Affirming GOES, sometimes with an Optional theme. To start the New Year off, the first challenge has the OPTIONAL theme of "The Road Ahead."
There are two sponsors in January - Scribbles Designs

Today I created a digital card using Scribbles Designs images: #953 Pull Trailer, Carl & Sun (freebie). I colored the image and squeezed photos of my grandchildren into the windows (the car is free clipart). Then I popped the whole thing onto scenic paper. Scribbles image "Carl" is hitching a ride on the wheel bumper, and Scribbles image "Sun" gives the effect of both a cloudy day and a sunny one.

That's what life is full of, both cloudy days and sunny ones. How we spend those days will predict whether this new year is one filled with happy memories and fun adventures, or "just another trip around the sun." I hope your New Year is filled with happiness!!

It is time to break out the party hats and light up the candles on the birthday cake. Get ready to hang some streamers and blow up a few balloons too as Scribbles Designs has just turned three!!! In honour of this wonderful occasion, this challenge we are celebrating birthdays. Yours, mine, a family member's, a friend's, or even an acquaintance's. It doesn't matter whose birthday you are celebrating or how many candles are on the cake. Simply design a card commemorating someone's birthday. Let the birthday bonanza begin!

Each participating DT members will be choosing one random person who comments on their blog to receive the main image they used on their card. So be sure to leave a comment on each stop along the way for your chance to win even more goodies (so the person who comments on Patacake's blog will be randomly chosen to receive "Birthday Wishes" (the digi image "Birthday Cake Slice" is a FREEBIE on the Scribbles Designs Challenge Blog).

Do you like Cats?! There's a challenge out there called Show Us Your Pussies, all about cats and created by Sue of Ike's Art and Ike's World Challenge blog. Hope you like my paper, and hope to see it out in blogland!

Sunday, January 15, 2017

What a year 2016 has been! Changes in my personal life, my work life, my family life...political drama and economic upheaval...

I am certainly glad to close the curtain on the last 12 months and focus on the new year. If you are, too, then the best place to start your year off is at the 12 Months of Christmas Blog. You can keep that fuzzy warm holiday feeling while starting on your Christmas cards for Christmas, 2017.

This month the optional theme is "Out with the Old, In with the New." I say optional, but IF you choose to create a holiday card with the theme in mind, don't forget to put the letters FT by your name and you'll have a chance to win a gift certificate to our January sponsor's Store, Ike's Art.

My craft room is still being held captive by the contractors, so I created this digital card using an image from Ike's Art called " ".

Tuesday, January 10, 2017

Welcome to 2017! The newest challenge over at Ike's World Challenge Blog is Anything Goes with a Twist. The twist is to create in a vintage or modern style. I chose to play with Vintage and since my craft room is still being held captive by the contractors, I colored (a little too brightly) my image digitally. Ooh, my fingers are itching to get to my craft supplies and color my heart out. Soon, very soon...
Meanwhile, I colored Ooh La La image and popped her onto some scenery paper from Marta Van Eck at Mischief Circus, and then had my way with all the lovely digital elements in my library. Image: Ike's Art Ooh La La

Monday, January 9, 2017

Today my card features a digital image from Ike's Art called "Gene & Fred," after the famous dancers Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire. I write digital because my craft room is still barred from entrance. Once the contractors are finished, I can finally get into my room and do some hand-crafting, and mixed media canvases, some water colors and altered art - ooh, I can't wait! LOL

I love this image because it can men so many different things. Because we are embarking on a brand new year, I got to thinking about how I will go down my path in 2017. So many choices to make, some shortcuts, and some just looking like shortcuts but aren't. Some people seize each day, learning, laughing, loving. Then there are those who are,

"Dancing through life

Skimming the surface,

Gliding where turf is smooth..."

(-from the song Dancing through Life, Wicked Broadway play)

Hubby's time with me is limited, mom is getting older, daughter is saving her well-earned money for her own place, and the grandkids are growing like beanstalks! I don't want to miss any of that. So I will grab life by the horns, live in each moment, and appreciate where I'm going and all the stops along the way.

Sunday, January 1, 2017

HAPPY NEW YEAR! Today at Scribbles Challenge blog, we are working at "Ringing OUT the Old and Ringing in the NEW." There is a great poem by Alfred Tennyson that reads,

“Ring out the old, ring in the new,

Ring, happy bells, across the snow:

The year is going, let him go;

Ring out the false, ring in the true.”

There are several key words in this poem that can help provide a starting point for your creation: ring, old, new, happy, bells, snow, year, false, true. How you interpret them is up to you. For example, you might choose to use something old or something new in your project; or be literal and include bells or snow; maybe you'll focus on the word happy and take your creation in that direction; or maybe you will design a card that reflects something new like new year's or a new baby, a new home, etc.
My card is inspired by SNOW, so I used two images from Scribbles Designs: "Melting for You Sentiment" and "Snowflake." I made the sentiment the focal point of my card, placing it onto Pixel Scrapper Brooke Gazarek" Enchanted Dark Teal Patterned Paper decorated with a few Scribbles' Snowflakes. I took a strip of Decosse's Dynamite Doodles Snowfest patterned paper to create a ribbon effect and that finishes the card.
My husband's birthday is later this month, so I made this card for him. Every year I tease him that from his birthday until mine, April 15th, he is TWO years older than I. So I guess that uses the "OLD" part of this month's theme LOL (but don't tell him I said that!)
Come join us at Scribbles as we Ring out the Old Year and Ring in the New. If you use a Scribbles image your chances of winning free digis doubles!!